Chinese, Japanese scholars agree on Japan's aggression Options

[wuen]

A group of twenty Chinese and Japanese scholars who recently completed a three-year joint history study have concluded that the Sino-Japanese War (1937-1945) was an action of aggression by Japan against China, chinanews.cn reported today.

The scholars, selected by both governments to conduct a joint study on related Sino-Japanese history, also agreed the Nanjing massacre was a large-scale massacre against humanity.

The joint research report will be made public next month, according to Chinanews.cn.

This post is not about bashing Japanese past mistake, but to show past mistake of imperialist adventure.

This post has been edited by wuen: Dec 29 2009, 03:33 PM

[ShandongDaHan]

wow, did hell actually just freeze over? does this mean that this will no longer be covered up in Japanese classrooms? good way to mend ties

[foi2]

wow, did hell actually just freeze over? does this mean that this will no longer be covered up in Japanese classrooms? good way to mend ties

it was never really covered up to begin with. The spats are really over a few lines in a textbook that's used in like 1% of the classrooms. Hardly something to boil your blood over.

[ShandongDaHan]

it was never really covered up to begin with. The spats are really over a few lines in a textbook that's used in like 1% of the classrooms. Hardly something to boil your blood over.

The ignorance and refusal of acknowledgement from many Japanese is enough to make any Chinese more than slightly irritated. So either Japanese textbooks sugarcoats the war crimes or Japanese citizens just tend to blot it out of their memory. Both cases, are no excuses.